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Instead of a panel break, he’d bounce along the border the screen would make (as we saw it was an open area before, but bouncing on the confines of the TV screen) and would ultimately *splat* & make that squeaking/dragging on glass sound the screen itself (the proverbial & literal 4th wall…which will be broke by holding strong?)

Though Sue going around the confines of the TV would be a bit trickier to make work…not sure how to theoretically show that, unless she pulled her arm back (left) for the punch, brought it off screen, and it shows up on the other side before she let it rip (like they’d sometimes do in old bugs bunny cartoons, with the shotgun & the differently colored ribbons)

You remember that old Daffy Duck cartoon where Daffy gets into a fight with the animator, who turned out to be Bugs Bunny? How the background kept changing on himso he’d be dressed like a farmer on the mountains or skiing in a place where you don’t ski and at one point walked so far off panle thatthe background hadn’t been drawn yet.

I imagine that in the cartoon, it would have been similar to that. BoD would have gone off screen, landed in a bit of old background–possibly from a previous hell episode, bounced, and ended up in non-hell background–Sue and Catherine’s neighborhood, the city, the island lair of Carrotcake, bouncing around there, and then ended on blank screen because he got pushed out of the cartoon.

If the cartoon staff wanted to be silly and had enough in the animation budget, then characters from the scenes those backgrounds came from would be present and would have new animations of them reacting to BoD flying across the scene–Sue Punched him through time, possibly with brief foreshadowing of a future episode in a brief glimpse of a scene we haven’t seen yet before BoD lands on an episode that hasn’t been animated yet.

Oh! The cartoon Selkie watches is based on this webcomic, like TMNT was a comic before it was on TV. The creators in the Selkie universe kept the style and tone but adapted for the new format and made it a bit more kid friendly. This is my headcannon now

I’m here way too early for tomorrow’s update, but that’s better than okay. I love this strip. The first time I saw it, I laughed for several minutes. My boyfriend (who doesn’t read this comic) was watching my screen when I checked the first time, and he also laughed. This bit was just really nicely done—kind of foreshadowed, but still a surprise. Gonna go laugh at it again. 🤣